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1 Unit 3&4 Review Chapters 8-11

2 Westward Expansion

3 Manifest Destiny

4 Louisiana Purchase  France needs money to fight the war vs. Britain  Livingston and Monroe buy the land at 4 cents/acre

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7 Enter Lewis and Clark  3 Goals  Report back on the geography, plants, animals, and other natural resources.  Make contact with Native Americans.  Find out if a waterway existed between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean (a Northwest Passage)

8 The Erie Canal  1816 – NY Gov. DeWitt Clinton begins work on the canal  1825 – Work finishes  1827 – Canal Pays for itself

9 What impact might this have on NYC?

10 New States Added  Kentucky – 1792  Tennessee – 1796  Ohio – 1803  Louisiana – 1812  Indiana – 1816  Mississippi – 1817  Illinois – 1818  Alabama - 1819

11 Slave States vs. Free States  11 “slave states”, 11 “free states”  1819 – Missouri seeks admission as a slave state  Upsetting the balance  Missouri Compromise  Admits Maine as a free state  Admits Missouri as a free state  Territory north of Missouri would be free  Gives southern slave owners the right to pursue escaped slaves.

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13 Age of Jackson  Ideology  Believed that ordinary people should participate in American political life.  Believed in creating a more democratic nation.

14 Change to a more democratic nation  Suffrage – the right to vote  Voting requirements extended to non-property owners  Still no suffrage for women and African Americans

15 What Impact might this forced migration have?

16 "There was considerable research involved in this, truly the saddest painting I have ever done." -MDS- (Artist)

17 Cotton Gin  Used a spike cylinder to remove seeds from cotton fibers  Increased cotton production 50x  Contextualize – Industrial revolution

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19 Slavery Expands  Increase in demand of cotton  10x as much was grown in 1820 than 1790  Need more slave labor  Vary from state to state  More than 50% of southern farmers did NOT own slaves

20 Reform Movements

21 Women’s Rights  Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton  Seneca Fall Convention (1848)  “discuss the social, civil, and religious rights of women”  300 Men and Women attend!

22 Declaration of Sentiments  Modeled on the Declaration of Independence  List of grievances against women  Many of the protests have roots in the Revolution  Call for Women’s suffrage  The right of women to vote

23 Abolitionists  Abolitionist  Reformers who wanted to end slavery  William Llyod Garrision  Quaker – Against the use of violence  Launches Liberator  Fredrick Douglas  Born into slavery  Broke the law by learning to read  Spoke out against slavery  North Star

24 Underground Railroad  A network of people who secretly helped slaves reach freedom  Conductors  People who led slaves from one “station” to another  Stations  Homes of abolitionists  Caves  Churches

25 Causes of the Civil War  Missouri Compromise  Kansas-Nebraska Act  Dred Scott Case  Election of 1860


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